..and that 2003 invasion was not just an act of aggression - unlike the Ukraine invasion it was based on a pack of transparent lies and enabled by the countless thousands of politicians and journalists who served as fervent cheerleaders. Cheerleaders who also never missed an opportunity to smear and vilify (as traitors, naive peaceniks etc) those of us who opposed the war and exposed the lies.

And to anyone who believes it would be absurd and far too late to prosecute and convict that majority of journalists and politicians who facilitated that illegal, lies-based invasion of Iraq - think again: Israeli prosecutors - as we all know - successfully pursued and imprisoned WW2 Nazi collaborators, concentration camp guards and the like for 70+ years after the fact.

Here's one particularly notorious - and topically ironic - example from the 1980's and 2012 - courtesy Wikipedia:

"John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк; 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg."
"Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being misidentified as Ivan the Terrible, a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In 1993 the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death(in 2012), he was tried and convicted in Germany as an accessory to 28,060 murders at Sobibor. "

An "accessory" ?

So is being a lowly "accessory" more or less heinous than being an eager accomplice, a complicit cheerleader, a powerful, influential pro-war and pro-lies propagandist and an avid war and war-crime facilitator (in 2003) ?